by luke14free on 6/22/16, 5:29 PM with 3 comments
by tantalor on 6/22/16, 5:33 PM
Static, referring to types, means at compile time, or before runtime, the types of variables and assignments can be verified; no invalid assignments are possible.
What you have here is dynamic typing; you can't verify the types until runtime, and then you throw an exception.